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DESCRIPTION:The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the
  Price of Saying No\n\n \n\nShocking cases of abusive medical research and
  the whistleblowers who spoke out against them\, sometimes at the expense 
 of their careers.\n\n \n\nJoin Barry Lam (Philosophy) in conversation with
  Carl Elliott (Philosophy\, University of Minnesota) about Dr. Elliott's f
 orthcoming book\, The Occasional Human Sacrifice.\n\n \n\nSponsored by the
  Being Human Initiative at the Center for Ideas & Society\n\n \n\nAbout th
 e book:\n\n \n\nThe Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry 
 into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face\, and why it is not the k
 ind of struggle that most people imagine.\n\n \n\nCarl Elliott is a bioeth
 icist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as well a
 s philosophy. For many years he fought for an external inquiry into a psyc
 hiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulner
 able patient lost his life. Elliott’s efforts alienated friends and coll
 eagues. The university stonewalled him and denied wrongdoing until a state
  investigation finally vindicated his claims.\n\n \n\nHis experience frame
 s the six stories in this book of medical research in which patients were 
 deceived into participating in experimental programs they did not understa
 nd\, many of which had astonishing and well-concealed mortality rates. Beg
 inning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Stu
 dy and ending with the four physicians who in 2016 blew the whistle on let
 hal synthetic trachea transplants at the Karolinska Institute\, Elliott te
 lls the extraordinary stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuse
 s\, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing.\n\n \n\nAbo
 ut the author:\n\n \n\nCarl Elliott (MD\, PhD\, Philosophy\, University of
  Minnesota) is the author of Better than Well and White Coat\, Black Hat: 
 Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine. His scholarship has been in two a
 reas. The first area concerns wrongdoing in medicine\, especially in the a
 reas of clinical research and pharmaceutical marketing. The second concern
 s philosophical issues surrounding identity\, authenticity and justice as 
 seen through the lens of biomedical technology. He also has longstanding i
 nterests in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the novelist Walker Percy.
  \n\n \n\nDr. Elliott has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Nationa
 l Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award\, a resident fellowshi
 p at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio\, Italy\, the Cary and Ann Maguire
  Chair in Ethics and American History in the Kluge Center of the U.S. Libr
 ary of Congress and a Weatherhead Fellowship at the School for Advanced Re
 search in Santa Fe. His work has also been supported by grants from the Na
 tional Institutes of Health. In addition to papers in academic journals\, 
 he has written for The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Yorker\, The American Sc
 holar\, The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. In 2003-04\, 
 he was invited to lead a year-long bioethics seminar at the Institute for 
 Advanced Study in Princeton.
LOCATION:Humanities & Social Sciences Building\, 1500
SUMMARY:The Occasional Human Sacrifice
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.ucr.edu/event/OccasionalHumanSacrifice
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